Foreign backpackers say they are being lured to Australia with promises of easy money and a holiday lifestyle, only to find the high cost of rent, food and travel forces them onto a treadmill of lowly paid work to survive.
Despite some 50,000 UK backpackers currently in Australia on visas allowing them to work, as well as thousands of others from around the world, satisfaction in the lifestyle is at a low ebb as the Reserve Bank raises rates creating a knock on effect that has pushed up rents, while the Iran conflict has contributed to raised prices on goods.
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